Thursday, May 12, 2016

The Moral Bankruptcy of the Modern Union Movement

West Virginia AFL-CIO officials, furious about a new law stopping
unions from collecting mandatory fees, announced last week their plan to
fight back with a lawsuit.

Earlier this year West Virginia became the 26th state
to enact right-to-work, which permits West Virginians in unionized
workplaces to opt out of union membership without being required to pay
union “fair share” fees.

The West Virginia AFL-CIO intends to argue in court
that ending fair share fees violates the state constitution by forcing
unions to represent workers who do not pay — a situation resulting from
union-negotiated contracts giving unions exclusive representation
rights.

Unions have used the same argument against
right-to-work laws in Indiana and Wisconsin. The Indiana Supreme Court
overruled a lower court decision against right-to-work in 2014.

One of the biggest lies that unions tell is that they're required to represent all workers, even non-members. It's unions themselves that seek sole representation so that they can then seek to compel non-members to pay.

So, they clearly don't provide a service people want or they wouldn't need the compulsion. And they lie about it. These are not the kind of people anyone should want to associate with.

Merit pay replaced the industrial style step-and-ladder method in which
teachers were paid by years on the job and how many – frequently useless
– “professional development classes” they took. Using a variety of
student achievement metrics, successful teachers across the state were
rewarded. Not all districts do it the exact same way, but all center on
teacher effectiveness and not the ridiculous union mandated “objective”
pay scale. The result has been a big savings for school districts, which
they then pass on to their good teachers. What a concept...

One other bonus included in the report: Wisconsin taxpayers have saved $5.24 billion as a result of Act 10.

5 comments:

All public-sector unions should be illegal because they are fundamentally corrupt; the people paying the bills (taxpayers) have no seat at the table. Unions give coerced funds from their members to elect politicians who will support the union's agenda. End them.

The Wisconsin GOP controlled government has made somewhat draconianmoves in the education system. Given that most WI teachers have atleast a masters degree, there is resentment that the governor failed to finish a college degree, but considers himself an expert. Small wonder there is ongoing substantial readjustment , a growingshortage of teachers and a growing number of taxpayer funded religious schools. I have boycotted my home state the last few yearsout of disgust.